WP Statistics access for other roles

Administrator only has access to the WP Statistics WordPress plugin by default. Is it possible to allow access to WP Statistics for other roles? For the testing purpose we will give access to the “Statistics” menu of “WP Statistics” plugin to the user with “Editor” role. “Administrator menu access” additional module to the User Role Editor Pro will help to resolve this task.

1st, you need to activate “Administrator menu access” add-on. Go to the “Additional modules” tab of User Role Editor Pro Settings and turn on correspondent checkbox. Read more WP Statistics access for other roles

Allow access to WordPress Appearance menu items

How to allow access for selected role to the selected menu items of the WordPress Appearance menu? The most menu items under “Appearance” menu at WordPress administrator back-end use the same “edit_theme_options” user capability to check if current user has access to it (read more…). Thus if user has access to the “Widgets” menu, he has access to the rest menu items: “Themes”, “Customize”, “Menu”, “Header”, “Background”. What to do if you wish to allow some role(s) change “Widgets”, “Menus” but prohibit access to other “Appearance” menu items? Read more Allow access to WordPress Appearance menu items

WordPress User Levels were deprecated just partially

Do you remember what are the WordPress user levels? If you don’t, then read this “User Levels” article at the WordPress Codex. As you may noted, at the begin of the article author says that user levels were finally deprecated in WordPress 3.0. Is it the full true? It is not, at least for the moment I write this post or saying in terms of WordPress versions, WordPress 3.8 still partially uses user levels.

I discovered that searching the answer for “User Role Editor”‘s user support request. User alby54 complains there, that when he tries to change the author of the post, he does not see users with new custom role assigned at the “Authors” dropdown list menu. Read more WordPress User Levels were deprecated just partially